Agnès Varda, a trailblazer of the French New Wave and feminist activist, has died aged 90 | ReutersNicknamed the Grandmother of the New Wave, Varda was a fixture for years at the Cannes Film Festival, where she presented more than a dozen films from 1958 to 2018. “The director and artist Agnès Varda died at her home on the night of Thursday ... of complications from cancer. Nicknamed the Grandmother of the New Wave, Varda was a fixture for years at the Cannes Film Festival, where she presented more than a dozen films from 1958 to 2018. At last year's Cannes Film Festival, she joined jury president Cate Blanchett for a bilingual speech against sexual misconduct in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The director had worked up to the end, with a new autobiographical documentary premiering at the Berlin Film Festival last month.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 29, 2019 15:45 UTC